Elton Simpson

Elton Simpson (1985-3 May 2015) was an Islamic State supporter from the United States who, along with Nadir Soofi, carried out the 2015 Curtis Culwell Center attack.

Biography
Elton Simpson was born in 1985 in Westmont, Illinois, United States, moving to Phoenix, Arizona. He converted to Islam while at Washington High School and attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix after 2005, attending Yavapai College in Prescott. In 2007, the FBI investigated him when he planned to go to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, and he was connected to Hassan Abujihaad. In 2010, he was arrested in a sting operation, but the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix paid his $100,000 bail. He became connected with Junaid Hussein and the Islamic State on the internet, and he decided to follow the example of the Charlie Hebdo massacre shooters and launch an attack on the "First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest" at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, which was held to promote freedom of speech. Simpson and radical Nadir Soofi shot a security guard at the center, and Hussain reported that "two of our brothers have opened fire" on Twitter when the attack began. However, both of them were shot by a security guard, prematurely ending the attack.